Fourier UASFourier UASMobility & Autonomy
Advice on drones and self-driving vehicles for governments, councils and businesses, from the first idea through to a safe, approved service that runs every day.
Mobility starts with a community need
Drones and automated vehicles create new choices for moving goods and supporting services. Making those choices useful requires a clear purpose, a viable operating model and careful integration with the places they serve.
Fourier helps governments, councils, airports and businesses assess these opportunities, combining senior consulting experience with the lessons we are learning from building our own regional drone freight network.
Four connected capabilities
Strategy and business models
We help you work out where drones and self-driving vehicles fit, and we design new services around them, including freight models that combine road and air.
Regulation, airspace and approvals
We guide you through approvals with CASA, Airservices Australia and transport regulators, and we support governments as they shape the policy that opens up new services.
Technology and infrastructure
We help you choose the right aircraft, vehicles and systems, and we plan the depots, landing sites and corridors that let these services run safely alongside communities.
Program delivery and trials
We run pilots, trials and full programs with the governance, grant management and stakeholder engagement that keep them on track.
Knowledge behind our advice
Our strategy and business model advice is built on two bodies of research that we maintain and update, one on how the market makes money and one on the technology that is available.
18 business models, studied globally
We have scanned the global market and documented 18 business models across drones, ground autonomy and enabling services, from government-paid medical delivery and farm spray drones to robotaxis, autonomous mining haulage and Defence pathways. Seven are already proven at scale, and the successful ones share an anchor customer paying a predictable fee and aircraft or vehicles that are kept busy.
106 platforms, compared side by side
Our platform catalogue profiles 106 drones, autonomous road vehicles and industrial robots from Australia, China, the United States, Europe and beyond, with their specifications, technology readiness and commercial status. It covers drones from under 250 grams through to defence-class aircraft, which lets us match the right platform to each use case, regulator and partner.
Air and ground considered together
We consider uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS), automated ground vehicles and the handovers between them and conventional transport. The right solution depends on freight demand, terrain, access, community needs, safety and affordability.
Applications span commercial freight, healthcare logistics, disaster recovery and international humanitarian support, and each one requires its own operating and investment assessment.
Resilience and humanitarian applicationsExploring drones or self-driving vehicles?
If you are exploring drones or self-driving vehicles for your region, agency or business, we would welcome a conversation.